Laundry-tag.



No. 792,874. PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

- v W. J. BAKER.

LAUNDRY TAG.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 1, 1904.

I INVENTOR Patented June 20, 1905.

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lVILLlAh I J. BAKER, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

LAUNDRY-TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,874, dated June 20, 1905.

Application filed August 1, 1904. Serial No. 219,077.

To (1, 1071/0771, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VvILLIAM J. BAKER, residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Laundry-Tag, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that type of tag devices formed of sheet metal and having means for firmly gripping an attached identification card, strip, or similar means; and it more specifically relates to a tag of the general character stated capable of being bent upon itself and over the edge of the article to be identified.

My present invention seeks to provide a laundry-tag of the kind mentioned having a means for securing the attached identification member and for gripping the article to be tagged so designed whereby but a minimum amount of metal is required to produce the tag and which renders the application of the tag easy and by which the tag when applied will firmly grip the article to which it is clamped and not be readily disconnected or lost therefrom in the ordinary handling thereof.

My present form of tag comprehends a sheet-metal blank capable of being bent upon itself, the edges of the opposite ends of which have peculiarly-arranged prongs whereby to positively grip the ends of a flexible identification member or tape and also serve as the means for interlocking with the article to which the tag is applied for securely holding the tag attached thereto.

In its subordinate features my invention consists in the special construction and detailed arrangement of parts, all of which will be first described, specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of my improved tag as applied for use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the preferred form of my tag. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2-. Fig. 4 is a similar View taken substantially on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

My improved tag consists of a sheet-metal blank (4 of suitable size, which in practice is stamped or otherwise brought to the desired shape, and at the center it is weakened by cutting out the opposite edges a a to provide for readily bending the opposite ends of the blank upon itself. In my present invention one end of the blank a has its opposite edges formed withV-shaped prongs or guards cla that are bent up over the body of the blank at an acute angle, whereby to produce a convenient means for gripping or locking the 0pposite ends of a garment-tape E, which is of sufiicient length to extend transversely over the side edges of the blank-body, and the said prongs a a, are of such length that they project through the tape E to form rigid hooks for holding the said tape ends and also to act as claws for entering the fabric or other article to which the tag is applied, when the opposite ends of the tag-blank are bent upon themselves and pressed down tightly onto the article tagged, as clearly shown in Fig. 5. To further secure the tag to the article to which it is to be attached, that end of the blank opposite the one having the side prongs is provided with V-shaped prongs a that are bent over the blank (0 in the direction of its length and at right angles to the bend of the prongs a, whereby when the blank a is bent upon itself the end prongs a are under the fabric beingtagged between the points where the side prongs engage the said fabric, and thus materially aid in holding the tag from pulling endwise off the fabric.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A laundry-tag,consisting of a sheet-metal body bendable upon itself, having opposite sets of inwardly-projecting prongs at its sides, a piece of marking-tape disposed transversely to the body portion on its outer face and whose ends engage with the prongs on the said sheet-metal body, the said prongs being bent inwardly at an acute angle and being of a length suflicient to project through the tape and engage with the garment to which the tag is applied, said tag having supplemental prongs for engaging a garment, as set forth.

2. A laundry-tag, comprising a sheet-metal body portion adapted to be bent upon itself to grip over a garment, one portion of the said body portion having, at its opposite side edges, inwardly-projecting V-shaped prongs, a marking-tape secured in a transverse direc tion over the outer face of the end of the said metal body having said prongs, and engaged with the said prongs, said body portion having prongs projected in the longitudinal direction at the end opposite to the end having the transversely-disposed prongs, all being arranged substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

3. A laundry-tag, comprising asheet-metal body of rectangular shape and provided with V-shaped notches midway its ends to form a weakened portion, said body being bendable upon itself at such weakened portion to grip over a garment, one-half of said body being provided at its sides with a plurality of inwardly-projecting prongs, a garment-tape arranged transversely to the said body portion on its outer face and engaged and held by said prongs, and said body portion having, at one extreme end, garment-engaging prongs, substantially as shown and for the purposes described. I

4. A marking-tag formed of a thin metal blank adapted to be folded over on itself forming a two-limbed clamp and provided with bent-up inwardly-projecting prongs formed on the side edges of one limb of the blank, and garment-engaging prongs at the extreme end of the other limb arranged transversely to the prongs of the first limb and a markingstrip passed over said first limb on the outer face thereof and engaged by the side prongs of the first limb, substantially as shown and described.

WVILLIAH J. BAKER.

Witnesses:

H. L. HAWKINS, J. C. DE Mess. 

